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Bhagavati Sūtra Bk. 5 Ch. 9
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प्रश्न. १७६-अत्थि णं भंते ! मणुस्साणं इहगयाणं एवं पण्णायद तं जहा-समया इ वा जाव...उ सप्पिणी इ वा ?
उत्तर १७६-हंता अस्थि । प्रश्न १७७-से केणट ठेणं ?
उत्तर १७७-गोयमा ! इहं तेसिं माणं इह तेसिं पमाणं एवं पण्णायह तं जहा-समया इ वा जाव...ओसप्पिणी इ वा। से तेणट ठेणं ...।
वाणमंतर-जोइस-वेमाणियाणं जहाणेरइयाणं।
Q. 174. Bhante ! Do the infernal beings living in the hells have a sense of samaya, avalikā, ... till of the upphase and the down-phase of the time-cycle ?
A. 174. No, they do not have it.
Q. 175. Why so, ... till of samaya, of up and down phases ?
āvalikā ...
___A. 175. Gautama ! Here, (on this earth) living beings have a standard and a proof of these, 37 a sense of these,...till the downphase. But not so in the hells. So the infernal beings living in the hells have no sense of samaya, of āvalikā, ... till the up-phase and the down-phase. And this is to be repeated, ... till the five-organ animals.
Q. 176. Bhante ! Do human beings living on this earth . have a sense of time, ... till down-phase ?
A. 176. Yes, they have it.
Q. ' 177.
Why is it so ?
A. 177. Gautama ! Here they have a standard and a proof of these, and they have a sense of samaya, ... till the down-phase. It is for this so....
